In 1956, the Quxian Xinqi Iron Factory, a public-private partnership, was established. This was the predecessor of Kaishan Group. From public-private partnership to the joint-stock reform in 1994, and then to the complete privatization restructuring in 1998, Kaishan Group has gone through It has been a long and tortuous journey. It can be said that the growth and development of Kaishan is a microcosm of the development and growth of China's national industry.
In the 1990s, due to various shortcomings of traditional state-owned enterprises, Kaishan fell into trouble in the fierce market competition. In 1994, Kaishan was the first company in Quzhou to be restructured into a state-controlled joint-stock company. In 1998, when Chairman Cao Kejian bought Kaishan 40's state-owned shares, Kaishan Company underwent a thorough privatization restructuring. At this time, Kaishan Company was already struggling, with annual sales revenue of less than 70 million yuan and annual tax payments of less than 1 million yuan. In fact, Monthly losses exceed 400,000 yuan.
“If you want to compete in the market, Kaishan must be controlled with an iron fist”——After privatization and restructuring, Kaishan began to improve the company’s governance structure, establish operating rules, and reshape corporate culture. Iron-fisted measures were taken to get Kaishan's management back on track. It lasted until 2001, when Kaishan gradually got out of trouble. In 2002, Kaishan, which had just recovered its vitality, began to reposition and think about its future development. At that time, Kaishan's single, low-end product structure and market structure made the company's chairman Cao Kejian feel the crisis. He pointed out presciently: "This The development model of 'low cost, competitive price' is destined to be unsustainable; if we want to win in the fierce market competition in the future, we must learn from the experience of foreign advanced enterprises, increase added value and lengthen the industrial chain through technological innovation and management innovation. Enter new fields, open up new markets, and realize the transformation and upgrading of the enterprise." After more than a year of research, at the end of 2003, Kaishan proposed the "4211" strategy, which was crucial to the development of the enterprise, pointing out the future of the enterprise from both product and market perspectives. direction. On the development path, Kaishan has consciously embarked on a path of pursuing "complete manufacturing system, first-class equipment, and core manufacturing capabilities". Since 2001, Kaishan has established more than a dozen companies through mergers, acquisitions and self-construction, covering many fields from casting, pressure vessels, compressors to construction machinery.
In 2004, Kaishan’s leadership realized that it was a general trend to replace piston air compressors with screw air compressors. However, to realize the popularization of screw air compressors in China, it was natural to import screw air compressors, which accounted for the majority of the cost. The screw host is domestically produced. Cao Kejian first found an American company and wanted to introduce their technology. However, because it involved core technology, the foreign company rejected Kaishan's request for cooperation. This incident strongly stimulated Chairman Cao Kejian, who was determined to master the screw host by himself. Core manufacturing technology. At this time, Cao Kejian learned that Xi'an Jiaotong University was also engaged in screw air compressors and had applied for the National 863 Program project. In September 2005, Kaishan signed a technology development agreement with Xi'an Jiaotong University and reached a strategic agreement on the screw air compressor project. cooperate. In early 2006, Kaishan put forward the slogan of “making screw machines more affordable”. In October, the first screw host manufactured by Kaishan rolled off the production line. In 2007, Shanghai Lingang Kaishan Industrial Park started construction. As of today, Kaishan has completed the development of a full range of screw hosts from 5.5kw to 355kw, with 18 basic models, forming a production scale of 2,500 screw hosts per month, successfully filling the domestic gap. In the Chinese market, the price of screw air compressors has been reduced from 10,000 yuan per cubic meter in the past to 5,000 yuan per cubic meter. Kaishan's "Aerodynamic Chinese Core" has saved the country a lot of procurement funds.
In the past two years, through technological innovation and transformation and upgrading, Kaishan has achieved a magnificent transformation from "scale leadership" to "technology leadership". The scientific outlook on development has been fully reflected in Kaishan's ten years of development. In May 2009, Dr. Tang Yan, the world's top screw compressor expert, joined Kaishan. At the same time, Kaishan's North American R&D Center was established in Seattle, USA. "North American R&D and Made in China" marks that Kaishan Group is at the technological forefront of the world's compressor industry.
As time passes, Kaishan, ten years after privatization and restructuring, has gone through difficult transformations and finally ushered in a phoenix-like rebirth. Kaishan Group is now a large national enterprise, listed in the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government's "958" technology catch-up plan and a key cultivation enterprise in the equipment manufacturing industry. It is currently the world's largest rock drill manufacturer and the largest air compressor manufacturer in China. The largest screw compressor manufacturer among domestic enterprises, its products are exported to the United States, Germany, Japan, and South Korea. In more than 60 countries and regions including Russia, Africa, and Latin America, the company has nearly a thousand domestic first-class precision processing machines, and has formed a mechanical manufacturing system with advanced technology, first-class equipment, and complete structure. The group currently has 18 member companies, more than 4,100 employees, and total assets of nearly 1.8 billion yuan. The group has a sound marketing network and a high-quality sales and service system. It mainly produces more than 800 products in 18 categories in 9 series, including rock drilling units, screw air compressors, and down-the-hole drilling rigs. Kaishan Group is the first company in the industry to win the title of "China Famous Trademark" and is also the first company in the compressor industry to win the title of national inspection-free product.
In the past 10 years, Kaishan Group has developed from an ordinary agricultural machinery repair and manufacturing factory into a large-scale advanced equipment manufacturing backbone enterprise with a complete industrial chain, advanced technology, first-class equipment, core technology and high-end product manufacturing. Today's leaders of Kaishan have planned a new blueprint: to build a world-class compressor manufacturing company in five years, to build a world-leading compressor manufacturing company in ten years, and finally to build Kaishan into one of the world's compressor manufacturing bases.